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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."

"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."

"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."

"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."

"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."

"Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."
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